How to maintain a good work-life balance while working from home We are being told that the post-pandemic world will be different in many ways that we cannot always predict. What we have seen during this quarantine period is the great value of working remotely, from home. Companies are certainly catching onto the trend, and most have the flexibility to work from home, if not at all the time, at least when needed. This is an obvious area where things…
Living a well balanced life While we had a normal life experience we felt that we were living a well balanced life but living under quarantine feels like life is upside down. We feel out of balance and that makes us feel out of control. Living a well balanced life means we have some measure of control on our lives, some measure of predictability. The truth is that there is no such thing as TRUE BALANCE and that what we…
How to Jump Start Your Mornings during Quarantine Quarantine is upon us and we are sleeping in longer, waking up later and later. Waking up late like this leaves us all exhausted! When we feel like that it makes us lazy and without purpose or even depressed. This is the sad reality of most people today suffering in this quarantine. You are stuck at home, not able to get around much and even worse, the authorities tell us to avoid…
Creating your optimal health routine Your daily habits, your optimal health routine has good or bad habits, and that says a lot about you and how well you are doing in this life.. It has been said that the quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to the personal standards they have for themselves. To put it plainly, people with poor personal habits have a poorer quality of life and people who have higher personal standards have a…
Ways to avoid getting sick. How is it that when the body is exposed to a germ (virus or bacteria or other pathogen) not everybody gets sick? Scientists concluded that the average human body contains approximately 37.2 trillion cells. The human body also contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. Of course, your body will have more or fewer cells than that total, depending upon how your size compares to the average human being, but…
Chiropractic Care and the Flu (Adapted from the Portugese Chiropractic Association) When one combines proper lifestyle and chiropractic spinal adjustments to improve the nervous system, these healthier people are less likely to get sick and they have a greater ability to avoid serious consequences and to recover from the flu. The immune system protects us from any infectious disease and fights to improve when we get sick. The interaction between the nervous and immune systems are well known scientifically so…
How does the new coronavirus compare with the flu? An annual flu caused by viruses is expected to cause widespread respiratory infections that lasts about 2 days to 2 weeks. While people are trying to prevent the spread of COVID-19, many if not most are still getting infected by Influenza A and Influenza B, which represents the greater incidents of infections in any season. So how does the new coronavirus compare with the flu? Here are some collected facts to…
Chiropractic Currently In The Country: Your Health and Safety Will Always Be Our Priority For the first time since we opened our first chiropractic clinic in 2006, Mabuhay Chiropractic Clinics has had to close its doors during this enhanced community quarantine. All our clinics in Bacoor, Las Pinas, Alabang, Mall of Asia, Glorietta, Forbes Park, Megamall and Quezon city part of NCR; and also closed are our five provincial clinics in Cebu, CDO and Davao. All temporarily closed until the…
Ways to boost the immune system during quarantine A virus by any other name is still just a virus. So what is a virus anyway? What we know is that it is a germ, a type of germ that is very, very small and is the cause of what we now refer to as the annual flu. This is not the computer type of virus, Webster’s defines a virus as: “any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that…
Exercises at Home to Keep Your Spine Healthy Today. March 24, 2020 most nations have implemented some level of stay-at-home quarantine. Other nations have imposed a travel ban to reduce contamination spreading from people contact. So, it is safe to say most readers today would be reading this from home. This is a short blog post to introduce one of docMIKEblog’s longstanding home exercises that target’s posture. Staying at home means you are less physically active and likely doing a…